January

Somehow January has ended and no pictures were added (and very few were taken)!

New Year's Day we went to the Tuckerton Seaport for a festival. The festival ended up being not very exciting, but we explored the seaport.


We discovered a picture of some familiar looking pirates.

The train engineer tried to sell us tickets (and smoke a chapstick!).

Then we found a short trail to run through.

January also brought our first snowfall of the winter. A storm predicted to be 6-18 inches gave us this much snow. The kids still had fun.

Sunny Seaport

After working around the house all day yesterday, we decided to get out today. The day started out cloudy and cool and we were a little concerned, but the sun slowly appeared and it warmed up some.
There was a Barbeque and Bluegrass Festival at a local seaport. we had never been there before, so we decided this would be a good day to go. We are sorry we had never been beforeand are already planning our next trip back. It was beautiful, relaxing and lots of fun.

There were bands playing and you could hear them as you walked around. We wandered around a bit and found a playground. Right before the playground were these two pirates we encountered>

The one on the right looks particularly fearsome! We'll call him the Dread Pirate Rudy.

The playground had a big wooden ship to climb on. The Dread Pirate Rudy stood and looked over his land.

He conquered his fear of the pole and successfully slid down it by himself.

Later at the Maritime Museum, we found a costume for the Dread Pirate Rudy - he still masters the sneer very well!

At the top of the museum was rooftop access to look over the seaport and the forests around. It was a beautiful view and gorgeous weather.

Here is me with the not so scary pirate. (It was a little windy up there!)

Paul and I decided to try the old "hold your hand out and take a picture" with so-so results. When Rudy saw us, he wanted to take a picture of us.

I think we'll have him do it from now on - this picture turned out much better than the one we did ourselves!

We walked around the seaport on all the boardwalks and saw lots of trees and cedar water and ducks.